Become the Plant Parent You Know You Can Be in Just 5 Days
Cultivate your green thumb and have fun along the way. Start your own at-home garden so you can grow beautiful plants, save money, and live sustainably!
Featuring Monique Capanelli, Plant Specialist, Ben Barkan, Garden and Landscape Designer and Benjamin Hansen, Landscape Contractor
Format
Every lesson contains a few short instructional videos, a summary of key tips and takeaways, and a quick assignment to help you apply what you learned. Completely mobile-friendly.
Duration
This course lasts 5 days, with one lesson per day delivered to your inbox.
Time
Each lesson takes 5 minutes to read and watch.
What you will learn
- How to select plants that are easy to care for and grow
- How to make any garden aesthetically pleasing
- Options for advanced plants that you (yes, you!) can raise successfully
- How to grow your own food and promote sustainability goals in your gardening
Why should you take this course?
- Because you want to grow plants that actually stay alive. Gardening can be a simple, relaxing hobby… once you know how to care for plants properly. Taking a bit of time to understand how to make your plants thrive will be worth it.
- To grow delicious food that will help you save money and the environment. There’s nothing like eating a freshly grown fruit, veggie, or herb that came from your very own garden. You’ll be amazed by how awesome your own crops can be, plus you’ll be spending less at the grocery store and promoting sustainable living.
- To develop a hobby that is not only enjoyable, but productive and good for you. Spending time outside gardening has positive health effects, beautifies your home, and is just plain fun. Get out there and grow!
Course Overview
5 Lessons
Choosing Plants to Set Yourself Up for Success
Too many first-time gardeners choose plants based on looks alone and give up when keeping them alive ends up being challenging. This won't be you!
Avoiding Self-Sabotage: Common Gardening Mistakes
Steer clear of common gardening mistakes that even experienced gardeners make, and learn how to embrace and cultivate your garden’s natural state.
Leveling Up Your Garden Aesthetic
Gardens can be useful and pretty. Focus on the pretty today by learning how to curate your garden correctly.
Cultivating Advanced Plants
Ready for a challenge? Let’s get into some harder plants: how to approach, grow, and nurture them for a big payoff.
Using Your Garden for Good
Gardening can be a path towards community building, connection, and yummy food. Learn how to make the most of your new outdoor paradise so you can make your neighbors smile!
Meet the Experts
Monique Capanelli
Plant Specialist
Monique Capanelli is a Plant Specialist and the Owner and Designer for Articulture Designs, an innovative design firm and boutique in Austin, Texas. With over 15 years of experience, Monique specializes in interior botanical design, living walls, event decor, and sustainable landscape design. She attended the University of Texas at Austin. Monique is a Certified Permaculture Designer. She provides plant and botanical design experiences, from small gifts to entire transformations, to shoppers as well as commercial clients including Whole Foods Market and The Four Seasons.
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Meet the Experts
Benjamin Hansen
Licensed Landscape Contractor
Benjamin Hansen is a Landscape Contractor and the Owner of Artscape Gardens, a boutique landscaping company in Los Angeles, California. With over 12 years of experience, Benjamin specializes in transforming properties into aesthetic, functional, and drought-tolerant oases. Benjamin uses color scheme, dimension, and water conscious spaces to inspire the design and installation of soft scape, hardscape, patios, pathways, irrigation, drainage, fencing, concrete, lighting, and electrical work. Artscape Gardens covers all areas of the C-27 landscape contractor classification.
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Meet the Experts
Ben Barkan
Garden & Landscape Designer
Ben Barkan is a Garden and Landscape Designer and the Owner and Founder of HomeHarvest LLC, an edible landscapes and construction business based in Boston, Massachusetts. Ben has over 12 years of experience working with organic gardening and specializes in designing and building beautiful landscapes with custom construction and creative plant integration. He is a Certified Permaculture Designer, Licensed Construction Supervisor in Massachusetts, and a Licensed Home Improvement Contractor. He holds an associates degree in Sustainable Agriculture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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What are others saying?
Michael
I loved this wikiHow course. After taking the course, I started my own garden, and it’s growing fully and healthily. I would recommend this to anyone who is trying to start their own garden. Thanks so much!
Annastasia
I learned how herbs are grown in small gardens. I am starting my own gardening projects now thanks to this course. I learned a lot. Highly recommend trying this course out!
Rohan
This course was the most comprehensive, yet simple explanation I have ever seen for gardening. As a struggling gardener, this course has helped me to identify why I have failed at producing plants successfully in the past. Bravo.
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